A full international trailer has been released for The Wizard of the Kremlin, adapted by Oliver Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) and screenwriter/novelist Emmanuel Carrère from the eponymous novel by Giuliano da Empoli. Deadline reported that the film "delves into the Byzantine politics of post-Soviet Russia and the rise to power of Vladimir Putin."
Directed by Assayas, the movie stars Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen as late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, and Jeffrey Wright. It "enjoyed a 12-minute ovation in Venice and has since played at Toronto, San Sebastian and London among other festivals and soon hits the MENA circuit with a screening at the Red Sea Film Festival in December," Deadline noted.
The Wizard of the Kremlin is produced by Oliver Delbosc (Curiosa Films) and Sidonie Dumas (Gaumont) in coproduction with France 2 Cinéma with the participation of France Télévisions and Disney+. Gaumont is handling French distribution and international sales.